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LIN1019-11091 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2021-46924

Created: Feb 27, 2024 Updated: Mar 18, 2024

Resolved Date: Mar 18, 2024

Found In Version: 10.19.45.1

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 19

Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove

'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free
in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak
as follows:

unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512):
  comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    <00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450
    [<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0
    [<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380
    [<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2

Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2021-46924 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46924)